tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11586843.post8511908748339596888..comments2023-10-30T20:35:28.251+08:00Comments on Michella Jade Weng 翁郁容 ミシェラ・オング: Languages and feelingsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03523015531601564662noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11586843.post-25099526041951365332009-10-11T20:08:51.125+08:002009-10-11T20:08:51.125+08:00Although my Mandarin is fluent, it lags so far beh...Although my Mandarin is fluent, it lags so far behind my English that I often feel like a child when I speak it, especially when discussing complicated topics. On the other hand, every year I spend here I get more comfortable speaking it, but I am always self conscious about my accent or pronounciation.<br /><br />My Japanese is pretty much limited to reading and listening, I never really practiced speaking it, so I usually end up speaking in Chinese to my Japanese classmates here.<br /><br />I don't understand Taiwanese but I can feel the same sense of warmness that you talked about. I think maybe it comes from the unsophisticated-ness(in a good way) of rural people, or maybe from Taiwanese's role as a family language as opposed to business/school language.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17945430704057679068noreply@blogger.com